In February, spammers continued to use the news of the earthquake in Haiti and the recent earthquake in Chile as another vector to utilize.

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Spam and Phishing Landscape: March 2010

Some time ago (February 25–26), the Anti-Malware Testing Standard Organization ( AMTSO ) had its first meeting this year.

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Insight: AMTSO’s Reviews

TrendLabs researchers have recently published its findings about ZeuS , a botnet making the headlines in today’s threat landscape. ZeuS: A Persistent Criminal Enterprise ZeuS has been entrenched in the cybercriminal business for a long time now and has continuously evolved and improved. Given the vast number of toolkit versions readily available in the underground, the features ZeuS possesses to thwart both antivirus and other security solutions, as well as efforts by the security industry, ZeuS will continue to be used by cybercriminals to steal personal information and even people’s identities.

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What’s the juice on ZeuS?

A new KOOBFACE variant is again making the rounds in the social-networking scene. According to Trend Micro researcher, Norman Ingal, the malware employs Facebook’s Private Message feature to proliferate

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KOOBFACE Makes a Comeback

News of a performer killer whale allegedly killing its trainer made the headlines this week. Dawn Branchaeu, an animal trainer in SeaWorld Florida , was attacked by one of the trained killer whales last Wednesday

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FAKEAV Rides on the Back of a Killer Whale

Within days of Adobe’s release of out-of-band security updates for both Acrobat and Reader, word now comes from security researcher Aviv Raff, of another new vulnerability in an Adobe product. The flaw was found in Adobe Download Manager (DLM), an application Adobe uses to deliver common applications (e.g., Flash and Reader ) to users’ systems.

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New Adobe Download Manager Bug

Since the beginning of the year, Adobe and Microsoft have been under a bad light since most of the most recent attacks notably exploited the two companies’ software vulnerabilities. Adobe Reader and Acrobat, in particular, are currently cybercriminals’ favorite targets.

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Adobe Releases Out-of-Band Patch for Adobe Reader and Acrobat

It seems that a recent Windows “patch” has been the cause of a series of blue screen crashes after users install a so-called Microsoft security update. The said patch, MS10-015 , is said to be linked to this system malfunction, which leaves user systems with blue-screen-of-death (BSoD) errors. According to an entry in the official Microsoft Blog , the distribution of the said Windows Update has since been suspended.  However the company also issued a statement that the cause of the BSoD error may be malware related.

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Windows Update Triggers BSoD Errors

Trend Micro advanced threat researchers recently came across a new ZBOT/Zeus binary file detected as TROJ_ZBOT.BTM .

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New ZBOT/Zeus Binary Comes with a Hidden Message

Any penetration tester would agree that pivot attacks, designed to compromise a secondary host to more effectively attack primary targets, are incredibly powerful. Organizations tend to have difficulty protecting all hosts at all times, which is why proper network segmentation is vital should loss of control occur on any one node. Often it’s easier to compromise a host from behind rather than head on

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Web 2.0 Pivot Attacks